About 20 investigators from Chihuahua spent part of their Friday training with FBI agents who specialize in crimes against women and human trafficking, officials said.

The joint training is needed because human trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border continues to be a problem as Chihuahua officials have identified 30 new recent cases, including some in Juarez, said Ernesto Jauregui, director of the Chihuahua Special Prosecution Office for Crimes against Women.

The best way to combat human trafficking, which involves sex trafficking and forced labor, is through ongoing training and sharing of information with U.S. authorities, he said.

The training session and forum between the two agencies was closed to the media.

Jáuregui said that, during the forum, Chihuahua and FBI investigators were expected to share what each agency is doing to improve investigative techniques and share information, which has helped solve cases in México.

He said that U.S. authorities helped in the recent arrest of a man suspected of killing a Dutch tourist in Juárez in 1998.

Ramiro Adame López, 51, was deported to México late January after completing a sentence for drug-trafficking in the U.S. In Mexico he is facing charges connected to the killing of Hester van Nierop, 28.

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Jáuregui said that one of the new human trafficking cases identified this past year includes a case involving a dozen men in Juarez who are accused of killing at least 11 young women who had been forced into prostitution. The women's bodies were found in the Valley of Juárez.

The women had been reported missing by their families in 2009 and 2010, and their remains were found early 2012.